Fire claims Joplin kin in Michigan

Wednesday

May 25, 2011 at 12:01 AMMay 25, 2011 at 12:25 PM

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 1-year-old boy whose father was out of town checking on the wellbeing of his other children in tornado-ravaged Joplin was killed yesterday in a fire that destroyed the family’s mobile home in southwestern Michigan.

Firefighters were called to Leisure Estates in Holland Township about 2 a.m. Trenton Harlen died of smoke inhalation and his 6-year-old sister, Jasmine VanderHulst, was hospitalized, The Grand Rapids Press reported.

Jasmine was in stable condition late yesterday while the children’s 28-year-old mother, Amanda Harlen, was treated at a hospital and released.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

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